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Originally Posted by New York Times, 22 July 2019
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., the legendary founder of NASA’s mission control, who directed America’s first piloted orbital flights, oversaw the Apollo 11 lunar landing and was director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, died on Monday in Houston, two days after the 50th anniversary of that historic moment on the moon. He was 95.
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Obituary :-
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/22/s...dead-nasa.html
In 2011, NASA named the Mission Control Center building in Houston the
"Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. Mission Control Center".